The Britain-based team has more than 290,000 followers on Twitter for which the early morning tweet, whose message implied that Raikkonen's leaving has hurt the team, has been retweeted 10,900 times.

Kimi Raikkonen. Pic/ AFP

The report mentioned that the tweet has also been favourited by 2,269 people.

According to the Mirror, Ferrari had confirmed that the 2007 champion would be joining Fernando Alonso at the Maranello for the 2014 season, although Lotus had hoped to keep the 'Flying Finn', whom they signed at the beginning of 2012.